Fertilizer-distributer.



S. E. JONES.

FERTILIZER DISTRIBUTER. APPLICATION FILED JULYQ. 1909.

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FERTILIZER-DISTRIBUTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 14, 1909.

Application filed July 9, 1909. Serial No. 506,763.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, SIDNEY EUGENE JONES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Atmore, in the county of Escambia and State of Alabama, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Fertilizer-Distributers, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention is an improved fertilizer distributer, the object of theinvention being to provide an improved machine of this class which ischeap, strong, simple and in which the distributing shoe is suspended atits front and rear ends by independently adjustable flexible elementssuch as cords or the like so that the shoe may be readily adjusted toany required angle according to the quantity of fertilizer to be usedand so that the shoe is adapted to yield to the tappets of the knockerwheel both when the machine is moving forwardly and rearwardly, theinvention consisting in the construction, combination and arrangement ofdevices hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of afertilizer distributer constructed in accordance with my invention. Fig.2 is a plan of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail perspective of thefertilizer distributing shoe. Fig. 4 is a similar view of one of theadjusting winches.

The frame of the machine comprises side bars 1 having handles 2 at theirrear ends and supporting legs 3 attached to and depending from the saidbars. Said supporting legs are provided with braces 4. The hopper 5 hasits lower portion disposed between the side bars and secured firmlythereto. The usual knocker wheel 6 has its axle 7 mounted in bearings 8which are on the under sides of the side bars 1 at the front endsthereof. Said knocker wheel has tappet spurs 9 arranged in concentricseries and projecting from opposite sides thereof. At the front end ofthe frame is a draft bail 10 secured to the front ends of the side bars.

Supporting and adjusting winches 11, 12, are. respectively mountedimmediately in front and behind the hopper, their bearings beingindicated at 13, 14, respectively. Each of the said winches is providednear one end with a ratchet portion 15 and with a crank wheel 16. Theshoe 17 is hung below the hopper by means of cords or other flexibleconnections 18, 19, the said cords being respectively connected to thewinches 11, 12, and to the front and rear portions of the shoe. The shoeis provided at its front end with forwardly extending tappet arms 20which are disposed on opposite sides of the knocker wheel and in thepath of the tappet studs 9 so that when the wheel revolves by the motionof the machine, its tappet studs successively raise and drop the frontend of the shoe and hence agitate the shoe to such an extent as to causeit to discharge the fertilizer supplied thereto from the hopper. It isobvious that by appropriately turning one or both of the winches in therequired direction or directions, the shoe may be raised or lowered ateither end and hence set at any desired angle according to the quantityof fertilizer to be distributed by the machine. The cords which suspendthe shoe being flexible, either end of the shoe may be raised by theaction of the knocker wheel and its tappets according to the directionin which the wheel is turned and as to whether the machine is beingmoved forwardly or rearardly. To look the winches at the requiredadjustment, I provide spring pawls 21, 22, which respectively engage theratchet portions of the winches 11, 12, and are secured on one side bar1 of the machine frame.

What is claimed is 1. A fertilizer distributer comprising a frame havinga knocker wheel provided with tappets, a hopper carried by the frame, ashoe under the hopper having tappet arms for engagement by the tappet ofthe knocker wheel, cords suspending the front and rear ends of the shoeunder the hopper and means for independently adjusting said cords forthe purpose set forth.

2. A fertilizer distributer comprising a frame having a knocker wheelprovided with tappets, a hopper mounted on the frame, a shoe under thehopper and having tappet arms for engagement by the tappets of theknocker wheel, winches at the front and rear sides of the hopper, meansto turn and means to lock said winches and cords attached to saidwinches and to the front and raised ends of the shoe respectively, saidcords and winches adapting either end of the shoe to behraised orlowered independently of the ot er.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature

